With tech entrepreneurship on the rise across Africa, efforts to support the agenda are evolving and diversifying. There has been quite a bit of debate—sometimes of the heated kind—about whether incubators, hubs, labs, and other support organizations work. In my… Continue Reading
We are looking for a part-time Research Assistant to work on a funded project, “Big Data and Human Development”. The research will focus on how ‘big data’ informs human development. We plan to map both the sources of ‘big data’… Continue Reading
I recently had the opportunity to give a Kapuścinski public lecture titled “Uneven Geographies of Power and Participation in the Internet Era.” You can watch the whole lecture at the link above. For anyone interested in more about the topic, the following… Continue Reading
I’m happy to announce the launch of an exciting and important new initiative that I am co-directing with my colleagues Iginio Gagliardone and Proochista Ariana: the Big Data and Human Development incubator. We aim to investigate the potential uses of ‘big data’ for… Continue Reading
We are looking for a part-time Research Assistant to work on a funded project, “Big Data and Human Development”. The research will focus on how ‘big data’ informs human development. We plan to map both the sources of ‘big data’… Continue Reading
SciDevNet has just published some of my preliminary thoughts about digital labour in development. The argument being that just because digital work is international, doesn’t mean it operates outside of the realm of resistance or regulation. Virtual products aren’t… Continue Reading
As part of our project on digital labour and development, Isis Hjorth, Mark Graham, Helena Barnard and I have been meeting and interviewing over a hundred people who do freelance work over the Internet, through platforms such as Upwork and… Continue Reading
Our previous post contained a few maps that shed light on the geographies of online work. But what we didn’t do there was explore the spatial variance of wages. The cartogram in this post depicts each country as a circle and… Continue Reading
Use of the term “hub” has certainly been inflationary in discussions about innovation and entrepreneurship support. I believe that innovation hubs are a genuinely new (and exciting!) organizational form, but at the same time, “hub” has become a misnomer for… Continue Reading
The publisher has kindly allowed us to freely share three chapters of our new book (that I co-wrote with colleagues Dan Hammett and Chasca Twyman): ‘Research and Fieldwork in Development.‘ The book draws on our experiences of doing fieldwork about development… Continue Reading
